Yavapai-Mohave Council

Scouting in Arizona
Camp Lawton
Pop corn stand run by girl scouts at the New Year's Fair in Poston, Arizona

Catalina Council (#011)
Owner	Boy Scouts of America
Headquarters	Tucson, Arizona
Country	United States
Website catalinacouncil.org

Grand Canyon Council (#010)
Owner	Boy Scouts of America
Headquarters	Phoenix, Arizona
Country	United States
Website grandcanyonbsa.org

Girl Scouting in Arizona
Map of Girl Scout Councils in California

Girl Scouts–Arizona Cactus-Pine Council
Headquarters	Phoenix, Arizona
Country	United States
Chief Executive Officer	Tamara Woodbury
Website girlscoutsaz.org

Girl Scouts of Southern Arizona
Headquarters	Tucson, Arizona
Country	United States
Chief Executive Officer	Debbie Rich
Website www.girlscoussoaz.org

Scouting in Arizona has a long history, from the 1910s to the present day, serving thousands of youth in programs that suit the environment in which they live.

Boy Scouting was founded by Robert Baden-Powell in England and co-founded by the American Scout Major Frederick Russell Burnham. Boy Scouting was brought to the United States by William D. Boyce. He incorporated the Boy Scouts of America on February 8, 1910. The Boy Scouts of America was chartered by Congress on June 15, 1916, This is the same year as the first Boy Scout Council in Arizona was formed with the Prescott Council. Burnham served as the Honorary President of the Arizona Boy Scouts throughout the 1940s until his death in 1947.

The first two Boy Scout troops in Arizona Territory were organized in Prescott, in September 1910 and in Tombstone at almost the same time. In Prescott, E.P. Cole of Whipple Barracks was the first scoutmaster. Arizona Territorial Historian Sharlot Hall was an honorary member of the Tombstone troop. Scouting came to Phoenix in the fall 1910 with Clarence R. Craig as the scoutmaster. Other scout troops were formed; in Bisbee in early 1911. and in St. Joseph and Snowflake about the same time.

Harold Steele, principal of the then new Tucson High School, organized the first Scout troop in Tucson on April 20, 1911.

On November 29, 1911 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) organized the MIA Scouts along the lines recommended by the Boy Scouts of America as part of their Mutual Improvement Association youth program. In March 1912, the LDS Church published their first lessons for the MIA Scouts in the Improvement Era. On May 21, 1913 the LDS Church was invited by the Boy Scout National Council to become the first Chartered Sponsored Organization in their movement. The Boy Scouts of America program was then adopted in all LDS Church congregations as part of their youth program. Each LDS Church congregation in Arizona organized a scout troop.